Day: April 4, 2024
In its first detailed analysis of the #Vatican’s pre-Christmas declaration “Fiducia Supplicans,” Russia’s Orthodox Church has accused #PopeFrancis of “rejecting the Christian moral ideal” by allowing the blessing of #samesex couples. https://t.co/bdpvtqv8ll
— Catholic Review (@CatholicReview) April 4, 2024
@KremlinTrolls: Trump is also a rapist
In its first detailed analysis of the #Vatican’s pre-Christmas declaration “Fiducia Supplicans,” Russia’s Orthodox Church has accused #PopeFrancis of “rejecting the Christian moral ideal” by allowing the blessing of #samesex couples. https://t.co/bdpvtqv8ll
— Catholic Review (@CatholicReview) April 4, 2024

“We have to build and sustain submarines in the next 15 to 17-plus years the same way we did in the ’80s with an industrial base that’s one-third the size.” On a recent trip to Lake Charles, Louisiana, the executive director of program executive office strategic submarines laid out the stark challenge facing the U.S. industrial base. These concerns are not new. When testifying before the House Armed Services Committee in 2012, then-Chief of Naval Research Adm. Matthew Klunder noted over 50 percent of the submarine industrial workforce would be retirement-eligible by 2020. A decade on from the U.S. Navy
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The Crisis in East Asia: Korea or Taiwan?

During his New Year’s Eve address, the Chinese leader Xi Jinping said that “China will surely be reunified” and that “all Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should be bound by a common purpose.” In stark contrast, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un announced that “re-unification with South Korea is no longer possible” and that the constitution should be revised to designate the South as “principle enemy.” One might ponder which of these statements is a more ominous sign: Xi Jinping’s usual remark to pursue unification, or Kim Jong-un’s unusual statement to abandon it? By comparing changing perspectives and
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